I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money I have a lot of money because I pay good wages.

I would rather lose money than trust

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

The world appears solid to most people. It is filled with their pain, their desires, their private ecstasies, their expectations. They are that world - nothing glows.

I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.

I am told that very early on in this transition process, to expect that [Donald] Trump will announce his nominee for the Supreme Court.

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers.

If a player's not doing the things he should, put him on the bench. He'll come around.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.